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SHOWS
“If you've ever wanted to see the future of comedy—head to the BCC.” - Time Out New York
Fun and Dumb is a 4-day improv festival celebrating all things improv, the silly stupid good stuff we just can't get enough of!
America’s first daytime talk show hosted by a woman named Naomi Daniels!
Welcome to our weekly house improv show where a rotating cast of 6 primo indie teams do some of the most GOATED improv you've ever seen!
Featuring: Full of Bones, The Go Go Gos, The Clique
Performers get 3 minute slots to try their material out with little pops from After School Special in between. Show off standup, sketch, a character, or even a little poem you've been working on. There is a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR BIGOTED MATERIAL.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Pump Up: The Jam is a weekly improv mic hosted by William Banks, Maya Sharma, and Tej Khanna where anyone can put their name in and perform improv in a mash up group with other comedians.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
In this Close Quarters improv set, follow Horseshoe Theory as they improvise an unforgettable summer vacation.
It's a stand-up show that we try to film well, and that means the comedians do some of their best camera-ready material!
Joe Harrington and Eric Greenbaum use their unique voices to bring you some of the most original sketches in NYC right now (maybe even the world).
A comedy about living life as a movie... and failing.
The Good Time is a fully improvised show based on one suggestion from the audience. The Good Time is a team made up of Chicago improv veterans who have performed at The Second City, iO Chicago, The Annoyance, Logan Square Improv.
Openers: TBA
A live show where Song Ad Libs are Rated and Debated!
Descend. Join the freaks of the BCC for a night of mania. All new wild-ass improvised sketches every week. Welcome to hell, it’s a party.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
America is on fire and Rachel Xegler is the only one that can extinguish it. Watch them inspire peace via improv comedy.
3 teams of improvisers will be challenged to tag into and continue the SAME scene in a feat of athletic improv prowess fit for field day!
Retreat is a fully immersive, once-in-a-lifetime wellness opportunity you DO NOT want to miss
if you’ve ever wondered what we really be like… this is your chance to find out. (hint: hilarious and pretty!)
The best improv team in the world is back this month for another epic comedy explosion.
Come see the stand-up show where the athletes are the comedians, and you, the audience, are their biggest fans!
We've heard your cries for MORE IMPROV. And we are thrilled to announce the Forever Jam, a jam open to current and past BCC improv students... because we're all students of commedia starting NOW and forever. Come get your reps done in an all-levels friendly space!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Exhilarating stand up comedy with brand new jokes by Sara Hennessey, Clare O’Kane, Mara Wiles, Nick Naney, Hanna Gerlander, & Fareeha Khan!
After a coup d’état cancelled the closing night of her middle school musical, Sila experiences her own version of her family inheritance — living through military takeovers.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. Each week a cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh.
Opener: TBA
It's 2025... You're at BCC... And Rachel Berry suddenly has access to Chappell Roan's discography.
Join Jasper as he guides you through the ups and downs of death, and helps you make the most of being alive.
At this comedic variety show, we ask that you come with a positive attitude; it would mean the world to us.
In 1975, Clarice changed the course of comedy forever by creating an entirely new form: a series of brief comedic vignettes that came to be known as “sketches.”
Paulette stumbles into a theater full of the most people he’s ever seen, and he doesn’t know whether to panic or mingle.
Give us an example of something human you did this week, and we’ll turn it into a full set of improv comedy!
Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
Classes
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HIRE US
Applied improv classes and customized shows.

Comedy shows to delight and improv workshops to enhance communication, innovation, leadership, and trust among your team.
TESTIMONIALS
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COMMUNITY
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RENTALS
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MERCH
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GIFT CARDS
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